Countryside puts offsite factory up for sale

Countryside Partnership’s MMC factory at Bardon in the East Midlands is now up for sale.
The house builder confirmed it was closing the plant last month as part of an ongoing rethink of its offsite strategy.
Earlier this year Countryside confirmed a review of its offsite operations which had left the firm with excess capacity and forecast operating losses of £10m.The Bardon factory only opened last Autumn making modular panels and Countryside was one of the industry’s earliest